Uncover the Hidden Truths of Creativity and Suffering in Alex Boyd’s Latest Essay Collection
What Boyd has assembled in Take This for the Pain is less a loosely connected “greatest hits collection” or a “new and collected” (to use another poetry term) than an account of a life organized around the act of writing, and a simultaneous reflection on the act of reading that makes writing possible. Like the ars poetica, Boyd’s collection turns to face the work itself, even if it doesn’t have the comfort of a literary tradition to lean on. That lack of a tradition is not a critique, but perhaps another ember Boyd leaves us.
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